With more stringent environmental regulations calling for lower emissions, with fluctuating fuel prices demanding higher efficiency, with pressing obligations to meet greater supply and demand flexibility, and with ever increasing competition, power utilities are under pressure to guarantee an uninterrupted security of supply.
In a sector which bases its performance on operational excellence and is extremely technology heavy, the key to achieve all these targets rests in reducing costs by eliminating breakdowns and stoppages, improving reliability of the total system and focusing on better quality of plant performance and equipment. Sound operational management and good maintenance of assets mean better performance, increased revenue streams and cost cutting.